A tese do "modelo doméstico" segundo A Dama Pé de Cabra de Herculano ou a forma humana da besta

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Ana Paiva
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://medievalista.iem.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/medievalista/article/view/374

Alexandre Herculano's reference to the lack of 'domestic models' medievalists have to face, at the time he is developing his work as a historian, and his literary project as a means for solving this problem is the main focus of this article. I argue that the difference between humanity and animality that underlyes medieval narratives such as the courtly romance and the short tale – taking Calogrenant's narrative in Chrétien de Troyes' Le Chavalier au Lion as an example - is deeply connected with the search for human identity in medieval literature and that Herculano in his A Dama Pé de Cabra draws on this issue to develop his own ideas about national short tales and legends as historically relevant and legitimizing narratives. By analyzing the ways in which characters are split between fiction and history in A Dama Pé de Cabra, focusing specifically on literary techniques, I aim to point out Herculano's views on how literary models may suit the work of the historian.